Posted on 04/22/2011 10:30:36 AM PDT by poinq
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Striking truck drivers protested for a third day on Friday in Shanghai's main harbor district amid heavy police presence and signs the action has already started to curb exports from the world's busiest container port. The strike is a very public demonstration of anger over rising consumer prices and fuel price increases in China. It comes as the government struggles to contain higher inflation, which hit 5.4 percent in March, fearful that rising prices could fuel protests like those that have rocked the Middle East. A crowd of up to 600 people milled about outside an office of a logistics company near the Baoshan Port, one of the city's ports. Some threw rocks at trucks whose drivers had not joined in the strikes, breaking the windows of at least one truck.
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By the way, it should be “effect”, not “affect”. “Affect” is a verb, while effect can be either a noun or an active verb, as in “to effect change” (ie, to “cause” change).
Effect not affect.
How many affirmative action minority journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Are you freaking kidding me that the author of this article used “affect” vs “effect”???
Talk about destroying your credibility in one word. Not that I’m in any way a fan of Bernanke.
Wow. Stuned©.
Just one. They hold the lightbulb and the world revolves around them.
Upon consulting a dictionary, the latter appears to be correct useage.
Just sayin'.
You could say he has......(ahem).....shanghaied China.
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